CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WSET) — The University of Virginia is honoring the three student-athletes who were killed in a shooting last month with posthumous degrees.
The College of Arts & Sciences departments where the students were studying, and the Office of the Provost, have approved awarding the posthumous degrees to UVA Football players Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler, and D’Sean Perry.
The printed degrees were delivered to Director of Athletics Carla Williams, who along with President Jim Ryan and others from UVA Athletics and the University, attended each player’s hometown funeral, the school reported.
The school said the slain players majored in the following:
- Davis, a third-year student from Ridgeville, South Carolina, majored in African American and African studies.
- Chandler, a second-year student from Huntersville, North Carolina, majored in American studies.
- Perry, a fourth-year student from Miami, Florida, double majored in studio art and in African American and African studies.
Davis, Chandler and Perry were killed on Nov. 13 on a charter bus after returning to the school from a field trip to Washington D.C.
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